Hu Jintao

What Xi Jinping has accomplished over the past year doesn't look like an old-fashioned Communist Party putsch. There aren't red banners in the streets or blaring loudspeakers. But Chinese and Western analysts agree that Xi has achieved a remarkable consolidation of power.

Since taking over as party chief in November 2012 and president last March, Xi has transformed what was a colorless collective leadership into an aggressive instrument of control and reform. "Xi Jinping marks the arrival of a golden age for Chinese neo-authoritarianism," commented Chinese scholar Xiao Gongqin in a November 2013 interview with The New York Times.

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